Synopses & Reviews
Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification twice in a little over a century makes it a fascinating object of study. In this volume the processes of unification are analyzed from the point of view of historians, political scientists and literary historians. Because each event had quite different historical pre-conditions (the first having been long anticipated and pursued, whereas the second took virtually all participants by surprise), the processes of adjustment to it have differed in many ways.
Synopsis
Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification twice in a little over is analyzed from the point of view of historians, political scientists, and literary historians.
About the Author
John Breuilly is Chair in Nationalism in the Department of Government, at the London School of Economics.
Ronald Speirs is Professor of German at the University of Birmingham.
Table of Contents
The Concept of National Unification;
J.Breuilly & R.Speirs * Beginning and End? The To German Unifications and the Epoch of Territoriality;
J.Paulmann * Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective;
L.McFalls * Cultural Critique in the Two Unificationsof Germany;
S.Brockmann * Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications;
R.Parr * Nationalism and the First Unification;
J.Breuilly * How did German Federalism Shape Unification?;
A.Green * 'Something Magical in the Name of Prussia...' British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s;
J.Retallack * For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification;
E.Fink * The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871;
H.W.Smith * German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire;
R.Speirs * Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany After Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse;
E.Griffiths * Theodor Fontane: Post-War Novelist;
J.Osborne * Nationalism in the Second German Unification;
M.Fulbrook * Historians, Unification and the 'New National Paradigm';
C.Ross * Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification;
M.Butler * From a 'Multinational Republic' to 'The Promised Land': Journals and Unification;
K.Von Oppen * Conclusion; J.Breuilly * Outline Chronology Further Reading